The Monitor., 1887-09-02
LOCAL NEWS.

Next Monday will be Labor Day-a
legal holiday.
The Board of Assessors will meet in Sa-
lem next Monday.
Woodstown Lodge, f. A. NJ, will resume
labor September 27th.
According to the Assessors list there
are 381 dogs in the township.
Next Thursday will be Quarterly Meet
ing of the Friends at Woodstown.
The OYSTER season commenced yesteR-
day-ThuRsday, SeptembeR first.
Bruna took 317 people with him on his
excursion to Atlantic City last week.
Hickory nuts will be very plentiful this
fall. Most of them are unusually large.
Druggist Harris has had new prescr p-
tion counter and other improvements in
troduced into his drug store.
The repairs to the bridge at the dam at
Clarks's mill have been completed and the
pond is filling with water again.
A number of families in town have sig
nifed their intention of closing their houses
and spending Fair week away from home.
The new barn built by JOSIAH NJ Brick
to replace the one destroyed by fire, is one
of the largest and most convenient in l. p.
Meek.
A fire occurred on Monday in the paint
factory Of Smith Bowen's Sons, 150 North
4th street, Philadelphia, doing about $4,000
damage.
Mrs. X. A. Brown, formerly of Woods
town, has sold her millinery business at
Salem to Mrs. Mary Schaible Willis, of
Philadelphia.
The 18th N. j. Veterans hold their re-
union at Woodbury. on Monday next, 5th
inst, and not 18th as we inadvertently
stated last week.
Joseph Turner met with a painful acc-
dent last week while at work on building
on the Alloway road, falling between two
rafters and sustaining severe bruises and
cuts.
1t will be good news to consumers who
have not yet laid in their winter supply of
coal that the coal companies have agreed
that there shall be no change in the price
of anthracite during September.
On Monday evening, September 18th,
the annual election of the officers of the
Young Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will be held All members are re-
quested to be present that evening.
j. II. Peterson & Son broke ground on
Monday for the erection of their new ice
house at East Lake. The new building
will be 52x20 feet in size and Builder
Stretch has taken the contract for the car
penter work.
The taxable property in Pilesgrove town.
ship is as follows on this years duplicates:
Real estate, s1,917, $50; personal, s1,337,-
625; Indebtedness, $685., IT'S; net valuation,
50, $50, 800; polls S97, including 81 volun-
teers exempt from poll tax. The above is
~, ,,ot 20, 1ac ~
of over $55, ,000
The Lotus Club. who paid their annual
visit to our town few weeks since to view
the famous Lotus lilies, have been invited
to be the guests of Il. ID. Sturdvant, of
Bordentown, to-day, to view a specimen
of the Victoria Regid, in bloom. Several of
the WoodstoWn members will take advan-
tage of the invitation.
The Postmaster General makes the fol-
lowing suggestion to the public: "Prnt
your name or address on the left hand cor
ner OF all mail matter This will insure
it's immediate return to you for correction
if improperly addressed or insufiicently
paid, and if not called for at its destination
it can be returned without going to the
dead letter Office.
Virgins is loose again. with ''the most
violent blow of the century" arranged Tor
September 49, A study of the planets
enables the Professor" to map out this
lively programme :'The storm, which will
originate in the Arctic circle, will cross
the meridian of London, England, on the
10th. Moving westward across the Allan
tic, the wind on the 10Th will be southeast
at Halifax. A counter wave, sweeping
across the great lakes from the northwest,
will roar over half the continent, the gale
being at its height along the Atlantic on
the 10Th, when the storms meet.